The BorD files, episode 11:

Now with more angry script kiddies.

Well. This used to be a story about how I like my job and my house and stuff. Instead it is a story about caution.

I had been kicked off of primenet.com. I moved to shellworld.net. I was getting used to my new home, when wham. A hacker broke in, wiped the disk, and I lost everything in my homedir. Luckily I had a backup of some of it, but this story is one of the casualties. It is no big deal. I am sure that the story was lame.

I also lost my email addresses, some saved emails, and who knows what else.

I was just thinking the other day that I should tar it up and back it up. I did not do it. So now I pay the price. It could be worse.

In any event, now I am on a system that says that they back up everything. I guess I will see how that works out for me.